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First daffodil

Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
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When I took my dog to the groomers I spotted a daffodil in flower, growing on the verge of a sheltered lane going up to their premises. I seem to remember seeing one there last year. 
Just a common daffodil but what a ray of sunshine. 
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They bloom very early down there don't they Joyce,  my son delivers a bit further down and the fields of daffs bloom just after New Year,  he brings home armfuls for his wife and sometimes me if he’s coming this way.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • EscarpmentEscarpment Posts: 53
    There's a council-planted verge near me that always has daffs so after new year but apparently they're an especially early variety.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Narcissus Cedric Morris is the earliest flowering cultivar, often in flower by Christmas, but it is rare and expensive.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Fentongollan.  Daffodils by post, free delivery 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    The flower I saw is not an expensive variety. The lane is an unkempt access to a few properties, like a tunnel under trees so very sheltered. I could go and buy my bulbs from Fentongallon they are not far from me. I noticed a narcissus spear in one of my troughs yesterday so Spring is moving down here. I must go and clear my snowdrop bed ready for them to push through.
    The local councils down here use thousands of bulbs in roadside verges, it is so cheery when they are in flower, after all of the doom and gloom around the world.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Same here Joyce,  there’s a length of them on the roadside just along from us,  every year I say I’ll take a photo,  never remember.
    Have you read the Derek Tangye books Joyce? 
    He bought the fields on the cliffs a bit further down west than Fentongollan, nearer to Penzance, that’s where my son gets them from. 
    I cant wait for them to bloom,  then can’t wait to get rid of the leaves as here they are very late and are there well into summer planting.  Such a difference between sea level and up in the sky😀
     Can we see your snowdrop bed when they bloom? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BluejaywayBluejayway Posts: 392
    I love the Minack Chronicles @Lyn
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Cedric Morris is actually a very old cultivar, it is just not widely cultivated now.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    and there was me getting excited by seeing the new leaves coming through!
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I'd love to get hold of some Cedric Morris daffs but as Punkdoc says they are rare and expensive. 

    I think February Gold is another early flowerer?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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